trousseau
Syllables: trous·seau/ˈtɹuːsəʊ/US/ˈtɹuˌsoʊ/
trousseau noun: the clothes and linen, etc., that a bride collects or that is given to her for her wedding and married life, especially a traditional or formal set of these.
Noun
trousseau (plural trousseaus or trousseaux)
- The clothes and linen, etc., that a bride collects or that is given to her for her wedding and married life, especially a traditional or formal set of these.
- Trousseaus of German Heiresses.—Despatches from Berlin told recently of the visit to that city of a wealthy German mother and her two daughters. for the purpose of buying trousseaus for the girls who are said to be perhaps the richest heiresses of the world. […] Frau Krupp, widow of the great...1906 September 29, The Literary Digest, volume XXXIII, number 13 (whole no., 858), New York, N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls Company, publishers, 44 to 60 East 23d Steet, New York, →OCLC, page 439
- Consequently, having decided to divide her daughter's trousseau into two parts, a lesser and a larger, the Princess eventually consented to have the wedding before Advent.1918, Leo Tolstoy, Louise and Aylmer Maude, transl., Anna Karenina, a Novel (World's Classics; 211), [Cambridge?]: Oxford University Press, OCLC 6561729; republished Oxford: Oxford University Press...
- A bundle.
Proper noun capitalized: Trousseau
Trousseau
trousseau meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic
trousseau in Urdu
- جہیز کا سامان, پوٹلی
trousseau in Malayalam
- വധുവിൻറെ ചമയസാമഗ്രികൾ
trousseau in Kannada
- ಮದುಮಗಳ ಉಡುಪು
trousseau in Arabic
- bridal clothes
- جِهَاز العَرُوس jihāz al-ʕarūs
Examples of trousseau in a sentence
- But while in the sixteenth century it involved the furniture of a bride's bedroom, bit by bit the trousseau was reduced to linen, especially to sheets.2006, Denyse Baillargeon, translated by Yvonne Klein, Making Do: Women, Family and Home in Montreal during the Great Depression (Studies in...
- There is further significance in the transmission of cash and trousseaux.2006, Paul Sant Cassia, Constantina Bada, The Making of the Modern Greek Family: Marriage and Exchange in Nineteenth-century Athens...
Synonyms of trousseau
Forms of trousseau
| plural | trousseaus |
|---|---|
| plural | trousseaux |
Origin of trousseau
Borrowed from French trousseau, diminutive of trousse (“bundle”).
From French trousseau, diminutive of trousse (“bundle”), possibly from the fact that the grapes in each bunch appear tightly packed together.
Words that rhyme with trousseau
Questions about trousseau
- What does trousseau mean?
- Trousseau means the clothes and linen, etc., that a bride collects or that is given to her for her wedding and married life, especially a traditional or formal set of these.
- What is trousseau in Urdu?
- Trousseau in Urdu is جہیز کا سامان, پوٹلی. See Trousseau meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use trousseau in a sentence?
- But while in the sixteenth century it involved the furniture of a bride's bedroom, bit by bit the trousseau was reduced to linen, especially to sheets.
- What part of speech is trousseau?
- Trousseau can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce trousseau?
- Trousseau is pronounced /ˈtɹuːsəʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of trousseau?
- The plural of trousseau is trousseaus.
Words near trousseau in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: trousseau (page history and authors); Trousseau (page history and authors); trousseau (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trousseau (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trousseau (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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